Fresh and salted cucumber is available at any time of the year, and salads with it can be considered an all-season one. Both cucumber and ham go well with many foods, so the options for this salad may vary.
For a salad with cucumbers, ham and cheese, 3 small cucumbers are cut into strips, the boiled and cooled egg is peeled and chopped. About 350 g of ham must be peeled and cut into strips as well. The cheese for this salad needs hard varieties to taste, it is grated on a medium grater or cut into cubes. All ingredients are transferred to a salad bowl, seasoned with mayonnaise to taste, salted and mixed well.
You can use chopped herbs or cheese to decorate a salad.
Another version of this salad is with cucumbers, ham and chicken. The chicken fillet is boiled beforehand so that it has time to cool down, you will need it for a serving of at least 250 g. Medium-sized carrots, 3 pieces, washed raw, peeled and cut into thin slices or tinder on a coarse grater. Cut 2 medium onions into thin half rings and put them together with carrots in a hot frying pan with sunflower oil, frying until golden brown, and then leave to cool. Small fresh cucumbers, 3-4 pieces, are washed and cut into thin strips. 250 g of ham is cut into the same thin strips, and the cooled chicken fillet is cut into slices or small cubes. All components are placed in a salad bowl, seasoned with mayonnaise and ketchup to taste, salt is added and mixed.
For a vegetable salad with ham and cucumbers, you will need to chop and grind 250 g of white and red cabbage with salt, add 15-20 ml of lemon juice there and leave to infuse. During this time, it is required to cut into strips a couple of medium-sized pickled cucumbers and 150 g of ham, which must first be peeled from the film. A medium-sized sour apple is peeled and grated. One small carrot is pre-boiled for half an hour, then allowed to cool, peeled and cut into thin circles.
Half a large orange or one small one is cut into small cubes. A hard-boiled, cooled and peeled egg is rubbed on a coarse grater, cut into strips of 50 g of salted hard cheese. Pour all of the above into a deep bowl, season with vegetable or olive oil to taste, mix well. The salt was originally added to the cabbage, so there is no need to add salt to this salad.
In addition to herbs, some salad options can be sprinkled with sesame seeds as a decoration.
Many people like the salad with crab sticks, ham and cucumbers. This salad is laid out in a mold or on a flat plate in layers, it is convenient to use lettuce leaves as a substrate. The first layer is bell pepper, 1 pc. for every 2 servings. It is cut in two, peeled from seeds and cut into small cubes, on top this layer is smeared with mayonnaise. Crab sticks are cut into slices, 250 g of them are needed for 2 servings, and spread on top of the pepper with a layer, also smearing with mayonnaise on top.
A large fresh cucumber is peeled from the skin and cut into small strips, laid out on crab sticks, and on top is a layer of ham, cut into cubes, in the amount of 300 g. Before cutting, it must be peeled from the film, and the laid out layer must be smeared with mayonnaise. The top layer is poured 200 g of hard cheese, grated on a fine grater.
